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Prayer is – listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the “ear of our hearts.”

Richard J. Foster

Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
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Four Goal Years
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
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Demand Stoicism Universe
Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Holy Obedience Worship
What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.
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Country Environmental Moving
When we determine to dwell on the good and excellent things in life, we will be so full of those things that they will tend to swallow our problems.
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Excellent Life Problem Things
Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God’s thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.
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Passion Prayer Real
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.
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Hazards Interesting People
Pride is one of the socially acceptable sins in some corners of the evangelical culture. Its just straight-out ego gratification – how important I am; whether my name gets on the building or on the TV program or in the magazine article.
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Ego Names Pride
Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.
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Falling Love Prayer Real
Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.
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Doe Mean Opportunity
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.
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People Reality Sick
Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
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Attachment Insane Needs
He is inviting you – and me – to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in.
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Arms Heart Home
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
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Addiction Anything Rejects
And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about “proper” praying, just talk to God.
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Ongoing Prayer Worry
Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God’s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.
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Evil Humanity Jesus

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